New Jersey Transit, Thursday or Closed Those called to reach the end of the day, last minute talks, New Jersey and New York city continued on a railway strike by train engineers who will affect 350,000 commuter.
The labor dispute emphasizes some manhattan commuters and disrupts his journey to Shakira concerts on Thursday and Friday in New Jersey. Among the uncertainty that the holiday will occur, the transit agency canceled the train and bus service in the stadium.
The system’s recommendation, Engineers 12:01 AM and if fired on Fridays, provided for details on emergency plans. The agency will add a “very limited” potential for New York Commuter bus routes, which is close to railway stations, and in the week-after peak periods, the main regional park and walking places will sign a contract with special carriers to use the bus service.
However, the agency noted that the buses cannot approach the same number of passengers – only 20% of the current railway customers, so he called on people who can work from home if a strike.
The third largest transit system of the NJ transitive nation – by bus and railway, including about 1 million weeks, including New York City. On one side of the New York city of New York, a Walkout, along with the Penn Station of the New York, will stop all NJ transit routes that provide a new transit route, as well as the recent Newark Airport.
Salaries have been the main sticking point of negotiations between agency and locomotive engineers and the brotherhood of trainers. Members of the Union members received an average of $ 113,000 a year and the Director General of the Agency has agreed to receive an average of $ 170,000 worth of $ 170,000.
NJ Transit leadership, the union’s information, the engineers have an average of $ 135,000 every year, the highest earnings are more than $ 200,000, he said.
If a trip occurs, for more than 40 years, the state would be the first transit holiday. Commonly members are coming after the management of the employment contract.
The parties met the Federal Mediation Council in Washington to discuss the dispute on Monday, but both sides and the board refused to comment on whether there were any progress in later talks.
-Bukowski, Associated Press